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High Court hands down Wik ruling

In December 1996, the High Court ruled the Wik people had title to Crown land in north Queensland that was held under pastoral leases. The court ruled Indigenous people's land rights could coexist with pastoralists' rights.

Tags: community-and-society, history, indigenous, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, rights, native-title, 20th-century, australia